steve, what do you think? it does seem like there is some hesitancy here, even though they can technically say this is fair, it smells. it looks like an attempt to kill the minority vote in the big cities. that's what it looks like. >> that's what it looks like. it's more than that. first of all, no, i don't think it's going to happen. i don't ultimately think it's going to happen in the other states. what it speaks to is it's not just trying to sort of isolate the minority vote. it speaks to how the emerging democratic coalition. that's african-american, hispanic, also single women, that's young professional, that coalition more than ever is tightly bunched in metropolitan areas, cities and directly around cities there is a statistic that is floating around, i think dave wasserman from the cook report came up with this. if you look back at 1998 when michael dukakis got slaughtered by george bush sr., michael dukakis carried over 800 counties. that's how tightly packed in today's democratic coalition is. it's